Age of consent / Olivia Ferguson and Hayley Mitchell Haugen, book editors.
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| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Greenhaven Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | At issue. Teen issues.
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Table of Contents:
- Raising the age of consent would protect youth / Dan Jarvis
- The age of consent should be reconsidered / William Saletan
- The appropriate age for sex should be determined by individual maturity / Theodore Dalrymple
- Age of consent laws are based on puritanical notions / Melissa Kang
- Innocent crushes are sometimes distorted / Judith Levine
- Teens should be punished legally for "sexting" / Brent Bozell
- "Sexting" teens should be punished by parents, not by the legal system / Larry Magid
- Sexually active teens are unfairly labeled as criminals / Niki Delson
- Morally driven groups should be tempered in age of consent issues / Maria-Belen Ordonez
- Age of consent laws must be reviewed and revised / Laurie Peterson
- Underage sex is as bad for boys as for girls / Deborah Orr
- The legal system overprotects some teens and overpunishes others / Dahlia Lithwick
- Sarah's law expands the rights of parents and children / Anonymous.